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What We Secretly Want (w/ Robin Hanson)

Uncertain Things

CHAPTER

The Emperor's Madness - A Review

The insanities on the right, especially as they involve the Trump cult and the left in terms of the ideological madness that we talk about a lot. Both of them are very much that what seems like just an ideological radicalization across the board can also be seen as a social evolutionary practice to weed out the unsavvy players. It's not at all about virtue or truth or justice, but about ambition and evolutionary opportunity. We're playing the game of personal ambition and personal ambition dictates that I go along with the emperor's madness.

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